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Elias khoury is the author of 16 books, including 11 novels, and is one of the leading arab writers of his generation and an enduring influence in the political culture of his native lebanon. Gate of the sun is told from a first person perspective. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, khoury humanizes the complex palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people. However, with this soft file, you can enjoy checking out in the downtime also in the gaps of your works in office. Khoury the kingdom of strangers, 1996, born to a lebanese christian family, steals a page from the tales of the thousand and one nights, his narrator not a scheherazade preserving her virtue but a palestinian doctor who tells winding tales in hope of keeping alive an old friend, comatose in a refugeecamp hospital. Do you remember the day when you came to me and say that everyone was sick of you, and i couldn.
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